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   >> of the RAND Corporation and author of Plagues and Their Aftermath: How   
   >> Societies Recover from Pandemics, commented in a 2022 piece about the   
   >> impact of COVID-19. "These last two years have resembled the disorders   
   >> seen during the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War and the   
   >> Black Death in the Middle Ages." He quoted Thucydides' observation that   
   >> "Athens owed to the plague the beginnings of lawlessness."   
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   >>   
   >> So, what to do? Acharya and Morris propose several anti-crime   
   >> interventions, but the fact is that the damage has been done and we're   
   >> now recovering to the extent we can. Murder rates have resumed their   
   >> previous decline as teens go back to school and young men regain   
   >> employment. But that's cold comfort for the families of those killed or   
   >> otherwise victimized by the crime surge. They can't regain what they   
   >> lost; they can only move on.   
   >>   
   >> The best thing to do, then, is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the   
   >> past. We need to minimize social disruptions and certainly not permit   
   >> government officials to close businesses and schools by decree. A free   
   >> and prosperous society, it turns out, is a much happier and peaceful one   
   >> than what results from the authoritarian whims of public-health officials.   
   >   
   > The only godly way to have the peace and joy of the "Prince of Peace"   
   > (Isaiah 9:6) even while subject to authoritarian whims of either   
   > public-health officials in their vain (Psalm 127:1) attempts to stop a   
   > plaque as has happened in the past or now in the present with   
   > https://AntiChrist45.com and his false prophet, who is falsely   
   > prophesying that conciousness (i.e. souls) will be saved by colonizing   
   > Mars, is by living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12)   
   > like (Luke 6:40) our LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who chose to stay   
   > quietly in the cold manger though He wanted to be in the warm arms of   
   > mom Mary being fed and Who chose to eat the "piece of broiled fish and   
   > honeycomb" (https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) instead of being hangry at His   
   > followers and disciples for losing their faith in Him.   
   >   
   > Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke   
   > 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a   
   > healthy appetite for food right now too.   
   >   
   > So how are you ?   
   >   
       I am wonderfully hungry!   
      
      
     Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)